What is blood money and how shall it be spent ?

 

blood money

noun

1. a fee paid to a hired murderer.
2. compensation paid to the next of kin of a slain person.
3. money obtained ruthlessly and at a cost of suffering to others.
4. money paid to an informer in order to cause somebody to be arrested, convicted, or especially executed.

The slave traders in England earned their money on the blood trade of slaves sold to the West Indies and beyond . This blood money was used to build universities - banking institutions and hospitals - scientific expeditions and museums - it was also used to Build vast mansions and further the progress of the subjugation of millions . But it was all blood money . Black

Money. It had to

Ge washed . The opium trade in China and the other trades of arms and munitions of misery . All had to be washed clean . Money such as this has to be moved - it can never be kept in a bank account . Then we ask ourselves … does the ends justify the means or the beans ? If I earn money through drug smuggling and armed robbery - through fraud and through suffering and the killing of many - is this money keepable ? Can you keep This money or do you have to spend it ? Or is it just money with no brain no karma and no thoughts of it’s own . 

What about the honestly earned money that is earned by the sweat of the brow and the efforts of its worker ? Fast money fast spent … does any of this have a colour that impels one to

Consume it ? What can we do ? 

In truth progress requires suffering but does it require the spilling of blood ? Does the curse that comes through a pirates treasure require us to transform

It into good works or acts of charity ? Do the blood guilt of the sinner gets redemption and a kind of remission of judgement of it is spent on the needs of the many ? 

Does money have a memory?